Interesting facts about Japanese Language
Japanese and Chinese hieroglyphs are the same only in a slight difference. Chinese hieroglyphs are more than in Japanese language. However, if a person knows Japanese so he or she can understand Chinese in general. There are three types of writing in Japanese language: hiragana (syllabic system used in writing Japan words), katakana (syllabic system used mainly in writing foreign words borrowed from other languages) and kandzi (hieroglyphs writing). There is also romadzi writing variant in Japanese language. It is the usage of Latin alphabet in writing Japanese language. Japanese hieroglyphs mainly consist of two and four syllables; however, there are various exceptions, for instance, this hieroglyph 砉is read «hanetokavatogahanareruoto». It consists of thirteen syllables and means noise in cutting the meat from the bone. In Japanese language there are four types of polite speaking; colloquial, respectable, polite and more polite. Women mainly speak in polite manner, men speak in colloquial one. There are no month names in Japanese language, in this case the numbers are used, and for example, September is called «kugatsu» which means the 9th month. Godzilla (Japanese Godzira) is not a random word; it is the mix of «gorilla» and «kudzira» words. In Japan people work hard and are always in hurry. Every year an average 10.000 people die from overworking. Famous Yosifomo Kondo (director of Ghibili Studio) also died with this disease. He shot famous film (Whisper of the Heart). Anime is the Japanese cartoon genre. It is called anime but not ever cartoon or animation. There are a lot of large meaning words in Japanese language, for example, «horayko» means appearing dawn from the Fuji Mountain.
the material is taken from http://ostarmenia.com/hy/culture-arm/japaneseki/
translated from Armenian into English by Tatev Harutyunyan
